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Franklin, Pennsylvania
St. John's Episcopal Church
41.3958, -79.8289
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Frank & Nancy’s Marine Corps Museum
44.4595, -88.2140
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Giant Squid Museum
43.5410, -6.5389
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The Old Limestone Arch
18.9688, 72.8039
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Maple City, Michigan
The Rising Sun Shipwreck
Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.
Scituate, Massachusetts
Maritime and Irish Mossing Museum
A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Wash Woods Settlement
The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.
Spanish Battery, England
Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House Museum
A collection of maritime artifacts from the world's first volunteer life brigade.
Mpulungu, Zambia
Hulk of the SS Good News
The forgotten remains of the first steamship that launched on Lake Tanganyika.
Crockett, California
Wreckage of the S.S. Garden City
The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.
Borgholm, Sweden
Trollskogen (The Troll Forest)
Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.
science
Scientists Have Found a New Way to Keep Shipwrecks in Shape
Step one: acquire magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles.
exploration
After a Century in the Ice, Maud Has Returned Home to Norway
The polar exploration ship survived freezing, sinking, and seizure by creditors.
shipwrecks
The Titanic Wreck Is a Landmark Almost No One Can See
Visiting the remains of the doomed ship causes it damage—but so will just leaving it there.
ships
The Second Death of Long-Submerged Shipwrecks
Climate change is coming for underwater archaeological sites.
shipwrecks
Found: A Newly Discovered Shipwreck, Rumored to Be Full of Gold
In 1905, the Dmitri Donskoi sank off the coast of a South Korean island.
Hobart, Australia
Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Countless expeditions have left Tasmania to explore Antarctica, but this island state has an even deeper connection with the sea.
Evanston, Illinois
Grosse Point Lighthouse
A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.
Oxnard, California
La Jenelle Park
Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.
Isle of Man
The Passages Shipwreck
The remains of the wrecked steam trawler can be found on the beach at low tide.
Pensacola, Florida
San Pablo Shipwreck
Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.
Pensacola, Florida
USS Oriskany
The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.
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